Did you know that AeroDynamics impressed at the team's first outdoor competition? posted: Jun 17th, 2024 Sherry Butcher has been operating the AerOhio Skydiving Center for many years. She is also one of USPA's National Directors and Vice President of USPA's Board of Directors. At AerOhio she is the busiest AFF instructor and jumps as much as she can, including 4-way in any slot that she is required to fill, while she keeps her skydiving home in perfect shape.
The NSL News visited the AerOhio Skydiving Center when Ed Ganley launched the Great Lakes Skydiving League 2024 season last weekend. Sherry Butcher competed on Saturday with one of her local RRR Class teams in the tail slot and followed up... (more)
Did you know that two Great Lakes 4-way teams joined the British Rookie Class leaderboard? posted: Jun 7th, 2023 The Rookie Class actually won last weekend's competition on the combined leaderboard with a total of five teams. The comeback event of the Great Lakes Skydiving League took place at the same time when the British 4-way teams competed in Langar.
The NSL News had announced the comeback of one of the earliest NSL 4-way leagues in the United States with the story on January 16th, and Cleveland Skydiving Center became the host of the first competition this year.
Kaleidoscope won the Rookie Class competition for the United Kingdom Skydiving League, and the two U.S. teams placed behind in 2nd and... (more)
Did you know that the Great Lakes Skydiving League has a comeback this year? posted: Jan 16th, 2023 The NSL News reported on 10 October 1999 that the Great Lakes Skydiving League would be launched in 2000: "The Great Lakes Skydiving League is preparing its inaugural season. The GLSL will run four meets in the 2000 season. The date for the first meet has been set for June 23-25, 2000. League sponsor Aerohio will host this meet. Other skydiving centers in the area are still welcome to join the league. Mark Belmont is the league's director. Sherry Butcher of Aerohio is supporting Belmont's efforts. He has already worked on putting things together for a while."
The NSL News update was posted more... (more)
Did you know that the Great Lakes Skydiving League launched the 2004 season successfully? posted: Jun 19th, 2004 The first GLSL meet of the season has demonstrated that 2004 is off to a good start for the serious competitors as well as the weekend “fun” teams. Five teams competed for bragging rights at AerOhio Skydiving Center in Rittman, Ohio.
The two rookie teams, FKKR and Bon Voyage competed head to head, many times on the same aircraft load, trying desperately to “one up” each other. The spirit of friendly competition was evident among these two pick up teams! At the end, Bon Voyage was victorious, due largely in part to an exit induced goose egg by FKKR.
The A class was entertaining to... (more)